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Evading the Few TeV Perturbative Limit in 3-3-1 Models
Some versions of the electroweak SU(3)_L\otimesU(1)_X models cannot be
treated within perturbation theory at energies of few TeV. An extended version
for these models is proposed which is perturbative even at TeV scale posing no
threatening inconsistency for test at future colliders. The extension presented
here needs the addition of three octets of vector leptons, which leave three
new leptonic isotriplets in the SU(2)_L\otimesU(1)_Y subgroup. With this
representation content the running of the electroweak mixing angle, , is such that decreases with the increase of the
energy scale , when only the light states of the Standard Model group are
considered. The neutral exotic gauge boson marks then a new symmetry
frontier.Comment: 15 pages, 2 figures, minor correction
Fitting isochrones to open cluster photometric data III. Estimating metallicities from UBV photometry
The metallicity is a critical parameter that affects the correct
determination fundamental characteristics stellar cluster and has important
implications in Galactic and Stellar evolution research. Fewer than 10 % of the
2174 currently catalog open clusters have their metallicity determined in the
literature. In this work we present a method for estimating the metallicity of
open clusters via non-subjective isochrone fitting using the cross-entropy
global optimization algorithm applied to UBV photometric data. The free
parameters distance, reddening, age, and metallicity simultaneously determined
by the fitting method. The fitting procedure uses weights for the observational
data based on the estimation of membership likelihood for each star, which
considers the observational magnitude limit, the density profile of stars as a
function of radius from the center of the cluster, and the density of stars in
multi-dimensional magnitude space. We present results of [Fe/H] for nine
well-studied open clusters based on 15 distinct UBV data sets. The [Fe/H]
values obtained in the ten cases for which spectroscopic determinations were
available in the literature agree, indicating that our method provides a good
alternative to determining [Fe/H] by using an objective isochrone fitting. Our
results show that the typical precision is about 0.1 dex
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